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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Demo Released

Posted by Zonk on from the best-use-of-sand-evar dept.

OneHungLo writes "Today, Ubisoft released an international demo for Prince of Persia 2: The Warrior Within. The demo is around 470MB. For those of you who would like to use the /. effect to help others get the file, get the .torrent here."

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  1. Look at the size! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm sorry, but I HATE large demos. As people start using broadband and forgetting about us poor dialup users (who can't even download a torrent as we only have 5KB total, nothing to share.)

    Seriously, christ! My fully installed copy of Quake 2 is 350 MB! Have people completely forgotten about good compression and not putting in things you don't need?

    Sorry for going on a rant here, I'm just really pissed.

    1. Re:Look at the size! by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      " There really is no way around large demos, aside from scaling back content a ton. High res textures, complex level geometry, high quality sound, all of this adds to the demo's size."

      Tell that to these guys : http://www.theproduct.de/

  2. Is this a good direction? by JensR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not really convinced the new style is the right way to go. I really enjoyed Sands of Time, but I only bought it after seeing a friend play it. All the trailers and screenshots were comparably boring.
    SoT was T rated, and the violence was on a level that I wouldn't be terribly worried if younger kids played it. Now explain to me, how do they expect to gain bigger sales by limiting their audience to "M"ature gamers?
    Don't give me the "average gamer is 28 years" shit, that's were most people stop playing games, and start worrying about families and mortgages.

  3. Where are the puzzles? by Ian_Bailey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I personally loved the puzzles best in Sands of Time, and was relatively bored/tired of the button mashing battles. I knew one person who just played the puzzles, and gave the controller to someone else when enemies appeared.

    The fact that they're pushing the gorier battles means to me that they're leaving behind what made the last game so much fun. So I'm probably going to pass on this one.

    To add to your comment, though, I think something I read at Insert Credit put what seems to be the main difference so eloquently:

    In Sands of Time, the Prince spends almost the entire game fretting about a servant girl he could just order to do whatever he said. After all, he's a prince.

    In The Warrior Within, he calls a woman a bitch.

  4. Re:The official site... by johannesg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why, oh why must movie and game websites always be un-navigable flash monsters with bad soundtracks that loop every 8 seconds, stuff jumping all over the screen, stamp-sized images, and hard to read text? Is this some sort of conspiracy? Who makes these sites?